Starlink satellite train lights up the sky of Jordan today

Written By طقس العرب on 2023/08/08

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Weather of Arabia - The head of the Jordanian Astronomical Society, Ammar Al-Sakaji, expects to see the Starlink satellites - 96G6-8, or what is known as the satellite Internet project, from the sky of Jordan in the form of successive bright points, Tuesday, August 8 at 8:44 pm, and cuts the dome of the sky from the northwest towards the north eastern.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>When was the Falcon 9 rocket launched and how many satellites did it carry with it?</strong></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Answer</strong> : On Monday morning, August 7, at 5:24 Jordan time, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from a Florida base, carrying with it 22 Starlink-96G6-8 satellites, and the satellites began to revolve around the Earth.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>How many satellites has SpaceX launched so far?</strong></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>Answer</strong> : SpaceX has launched about 4,900 satellites from the Starlink system so far, of which 4,500 are operational.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>What is the train of lights or Starlink satellites?</strong></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The satellites of the Starlink satellite system, which belongs to the SpaceX company, and this system is for satellite communications and the Internet, as the Falcon 9 missile launches a group of satellites at once, and their number may reach about 60 satellites, and these satellites appear at night in the form of a train of lights.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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